Dustin C. Read appointed department head of Blackwood Department of Real Estate
The Pamplin College of Business has appointed Dustin C. Read as department head for the Blackwood Department of Real Estate. He will begin the role Aug. 10.
Read is returning to Virginia Tech, where he led the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. In 2021, Read transitioned to Clemson University as professor and director of its Master of Real Estate Development program. His career includes extensive consulting with public and private sector organizations to promote socially responsible real estate development.
Read is the NAIOP Research Foundation/Thomas J. Bisacquino Distinguished Fellow, an inductee into the Institute of Real Estate Management’s Academy of Authors, and a nine-time honoree by the American Real Estate Society for his contributions to real estate theory and practice. He has published over 50 articles and trade reports with notable works on real estate asset management, networking in the commercial real estate industry, urban land assembly, and public-private partnerships.
Read succeeds Kevin Boyle, the Willis Blackwood Professor of Real Estate, who announced he would be stepping down from role of department head earlier this year. A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2005, Boyle was named the founding director of the Program in Real Estate in 2012. In 2019, Boyle was named the Willis Blackwood Real Estate Director by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
